# meld
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /mɛld/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛld

### Etymology 1

The verb is probably derived:
* from a blend of melt +‎ weld; or
* from melled (“blended; mingled”), the past participle of mell.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Compare also melting pot.

#### Verb

meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded) (originally US)
* (transitive) To combine (multiple things) together; to blend, to fuse. [from early 20th c.]
    Synonyms: conflate, merge
    One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
** 2018 June 5, Michael Wines, “Song awakens injured pride of Afrikaners”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like – we can all be proud of our young country.
* (intransitive) To combine, to blend, to fuse.

##### Derived terms

* melded (adjective)
* melder
* melding (noun)
* mindmeld

##### Related terms

* meldometer (historical)
* melt
* weld

##### Translations
#### Noun

meld (plural melds)
* (originally US) The result of multiple things being combined together; a blend. [from late 20th c.]
    Synonym: combination

##### Derived terms

* mind meld

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
* Dutch melden
* Old English meldian (“to announce, declare; to inform, notify”) (Middle English melden (“to accuse, inform against; to announce, declare”))

#### Verb

meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded) (card games)
* Especially in games of the rummy family: [from late 19th c.]
** (transitive) To announce or play (a combination of playing cards) and thus score points.
** (intransitive) To announce or play a combination of playing cards and thus score points.

##### Translations
#### Noun

meld (plural melds)
* (card games) Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points. [from late 19th c.]
** 1914 February, Sinclair Lewis, “He is Blown by the Whirlwind”, in Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 231:The realization that Istra was in the room made him forget most of his melds at pinochle; […]

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “meld, v.$^3$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “meld$^1$, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “meld, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “meld$^1$, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “meld, v.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “melt$^2$, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “meld, n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “meld$^2$, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* meld (cards) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* meld (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Verb

meld
* imperative of melde

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlt

### Verb

meld
* inflection of melden:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛlt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlt
* Hyphenation: meld

### Verb

meld
* singular imperative of melden

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

meld
* imperative of melde

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse meldr.

#### Alternative forms

* melder m

#### Noun

meld m (definite singular melden, indefinite plural meldar, definite plural meldane)
* grinding, crushing
* an amount of grain that is to be milled
* an amount of flour that returns from the mill

##### Related terms

* mala, male (to grind, crush)
* mjøl n

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

meld (neuter singular meldt, definite singular and plural melde)
* past participle of melde

#### Verb

meld
* imperative of melda and melde

### References

* “meld” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.